Art and process of manufacturing fabric-covered ornaments or moldings.



No. 683,425. Patn ted Oct. 1.90:.

J. A. ANDERSON &. A. M. HOLSTEIN. ART AND PROCESS OF'HANUFAOTURlNG FABRIC COVERED ORNAMENTS OR HOLDINGS.

(Application filed. Dec. 3, 1900.)

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WITNESSES. NvEgTnRs.-

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NlTE TATES JAMES A. ANDERSON, OF ONEIDA, AND

PATENT 'Orricn.

ADOLPH M. IIOLSTEIN, OF SYRACUSE,

NEW YORK.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 683,425, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed December 3, 1900.

T0 aZZ whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES A. ANDERSON, of Oneida, in the county of Madison, and ADOLPH M. HOLSTEIN, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Art and Process of Manufacturing Fabric- Oovered Ornaments or Moldings, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in the art and process of manufacturing fabriccovered ornaments or moldings, the primary object being to reduce to a minimum the cost of producing ornamented fabric-covered surfaces of any desired configuration by combining an adhesive plastic or other material with a fabric or equivalent facing and simultaneously pressing the fabric-covered surface into the desired ornamentation or configuration.

The further object of this invention is to produce a new article of manufacture consisting of decorative ornaments for burial-caskets, furniture, house decorations, and other uses which may be sold at a minimum cost, is pliable and tenacious, and may be applied with equal readiness to irregular or to plane surfaces.

To this end the invention consists in the method and art of making facric-covered ornaments or moldings, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is asectional view of a negative mold or die, a fabric-covered blank or mass of plastic material, and a pressure device for forcing the blank into the negative. Fig. 2 is a view similar to v Fig. 1, the fabric covered material being forced into the die for forming the ornamented surface. Fig. 3 is a face View of the ornament after coming from the die seen in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a face view of an ornamented surface of a molding which is similarly formed in a separate negative or die, not illustrated. t

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

In the art of manufacture of fabric-covered ornaments and moldings it has been the prac- Serial No. 38,528. (No specimens):

ties to first produce the ornamented surface 011 a plastic or other material andthen to apply the fabric covering to the ornamented surface by hand, which process, it is wellknown, 5 5 is laborious, expensive, and entirelyimpracticable in extremelyintricate and fine ornamentation orin extra heavy and sharp relief-work, and that even in ordinary ornamentation the sharpness of the relief or configuration is he quen tly lost by the inability of the operator to force the fabric into contact with every minute detail of-such configuration.

Our improved method or process consists, broadly, first, in the mechanical application of the fabric or equivalent facing to any ornamented or plain surface by a single operation; second, the simultaneous formation of the same configuration or ornamentation in both the plastic material and fabric covering or facing, and, third, the pressing together in one die or mold of an adhesive plastic body and a fabric, with the fabric adjacent to the negative mold or die, whereby the ornamentation is produced first upon the fabric and 7 then upon the plastic material, and both are caused to adhere to each other.

Any desired mechanical means may be employed in carrying out our invention, and in Figs. 1 and 2 we have shown a die A,l1aving a suitable negative configuration a. for pro ducing the desired ornamentation upon one face of a plgasgic body B and the fabric covering or facing therefor. O is an opposite die or pressure piece which is preferably provided withaplain engaging face c,adapted to engage the opposite face of the plastic body. One or both of said dies maybe made in the form of a roller and adapted to impinge the plastic material and fabric between their contiguous 0 faces for producing the desired ornamentation. It is further evident that the adjacent faces of each of the dies may be provided with negative configurations of similar or different'contours and that the fabric covering 5 may be made to entirely inclose the plastic material, so that when the dies are foiced toward each other both faces of the plastic material and fabric will receive the positive impression from their respective dies.

The essential steps in the process of making fabric-covered ornaments consists, first, in intel-posing the fabric between the plastic material and the negative die and then pressing the whole by mechanical means against the negative, whereby the contour of the negative is positively and simultaneously transmitted to the fabric and to the plastic material by a single operation. The plastic material being provided with an adhesive element causes the fabric to retain the same configuration as the die and plastic material, and the fabric serves to reinforce the plastic body, which on-account of its pliability may be readily bent and made to conform to any contour to which the ornament or molding may be applied.

The operation of our invention will now be readily understood upon reference to the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings, and it will be noted that, if desired, some change in the steps of the process may be made without departing from the spirit of our invention. Therefore we do not limit ourselves to the precise order of operation as described.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method and process of making fabriccovered ornaments or moldings consisting in the mechanical application of a fabric to an ornamented surface whereby the fabric in its natural dry state is made to assume the same configuration as said ornament-surface without further treatment.

2. The method and process of making fabriccovered ornaments or moldings consisting in subjecting a fabric-covered surface of plastic material to pressure against an ornamented surface, whereby the ornamentation is positively and simultaneously stamped into the fabric and plastic material, said fabric being applied to the surface of the plastic material in its natural dry state and made to adhere thereto without further treatment.

3. The method and process of making fabriccovered ornaments or moldings consisting in interposing a fabric between a yielding surface of a body of material and an ornamented surface and then forcing the whole against said ornamented surface for simultaneously producing a positive impression in the fabric and yielding surface, said fabric being forced into the intaglio parts of the ornamented surface and made to adhere thereto without additional treatment.

4. As a new article of manufacture, abody of permanently-pliable material containing an adhesive element and having an orna mented surface and a fabric facing of silk, satin, broadcloth, or plush impressed into the same configuration as said ornamented surface.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 27th day of November, 1900.

JAMES A. ANDERSON. ADOLPH M. I-IOLSTEIN.

Witnesses:

H. E. CHASE, MILDRED M. NOTT. 

